St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-31
AGAINST nlGm LICENSE.
Rev. A. w. Edwards says IL is an
ACT 10 Catch Temperance Votes.


ACT 10 Catch Temperance Votes.
Rev. A. W. Edwards, pastor of Clinton
Avenue NJ. E. church, preached yesterday
on High License" and the sentiments eX-
pressed by him were strongly against any
license whatever. His text was taken from
the xviii chapter of Isaiah. The preacher
said it would appear as though the words OF
the text were written specially for the pres
ent day, when state legislatures made
compromise and covenant with the most
effective agency of hell-the liquor traffic
and gave it the sanction OF law for
monetary consideration. He said:
The whole history of license for centuries
has been one OF shame and disgrace to Anglo
Saxon civilization. En@lnnd has expert
mented with restriction aud license for sou
years, and is to-day one of the most drunken
nations On earth. Ma Iagascar and China are
more enlightened on this question:. Both the
latter have refused to license opium and
| liquor. But every tree Shall be known by its
fruits. What can the advocates Of high Ii
cense show as the results of their pet theory?
challenge the high icensist to an eXamina-
| ton of its results. Nowhere has free trade
| in liquor been proven TO be any worse in its
| results than the highest license ever adopted.
| Chicago and Omaha are pretty specimens of
i temperance towns as the result OF higl IL
censa. Chicago pays $500 and Omaha 81 eco.
| Someb Jdy ought to put Omaha on wheels
| and run it out on Wabasha street for the ben
| eft of the Minnesota legislature as a sample
| of the virtues of hi III license. But why go
| so far from home? Hear the opinion of
| some eminent authorities on this subject.
! EX-Mayor Hardy, of Lincoln, Neb., after the
| $1,000 license had been in effect long euou III
| to test it, said: There has been no improve
| ment in our saloons: high license has cone
nothing to wake up temperance sentiment.
Men get drunk rs usual: salOonkeepers vio-
late the law as they have always DONE" Joln
B. Finch. who labored hard for the passage
OF the Nebraska law, says: Il know now
that was terribly mistaken in m, theories.
| Many of the delusions urged defense of
high license nave been exploded by the TT al
| of the law" DR.. Herrick Johnson, of Chi
cago, Says: "Tae saloons closed by high
| license are mostly those in connection with
groceries, and tue least harmful and most
| decent of all. The great arteries OF the city
| show no closed Saloons The Daily News OF
the same city, after the law had been in eff
feet for two years, said: LAS q revenue
measure it is a success, but as Il temperance
measure it is a failure and farce" Will
| such sensible men as compose the legisl a ure
Of Minnesota give their sanction to sucl an
! iniquitous measure, thinking that it will be of
any benefit in reducing the evils flowing from
| the drink e traffic? Will they CON-
prom Sc with the brewers and sa-
| loonkcepers and make a covenant
with their dark trade if they pay the state At
share OF the profits? If so let me warn them
IN the language of the inspired prophet:
Your covenant with death shall be disan-
nulled and your agreement with hell shall not
stand" Gentlemen, there is but one way to
settle this question and that is TO let the peo-
pc settle it. and they viii settle it right. II
you do pass the so-called high license bill give
it its right name-"An act to catch temper
ance votes without offending the rum
power.